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Does Skype hangup?

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CaptBob92

I've been playing with Skype and will use it for a remote for the first time in a week or so. A question arose last week, does Skype hang up automaticly after an hour or so like magic jack does or does it stay up as long as you are using it? For obvious reasons I don't any surprizes.
 
I don't know about a limitation on the length of a call, but it has never hung up on me. The quality just knocks me out. Even if the calling party has a $21 headset, like my best friend, the quality is DRAMATICALLY better than a phone line.

Today, I signed up for the unlimited monthly plan for $2.99 per month and started using it for my domestic calls when I'm sitting at my computer. Since Skype is almost true duplex, I have my RE20 for transmit and my computer speakers for receive. A USB headset is not even necessary. If the audio input is the Windows mix bus, I can play audio from the computer over the Skype call. Cool.
 
Yes, I've tested it and been blown away by the quality too. I wish there were a way to answer the call without requiring somone to be at the receiving end to push the answer button. Any ideas on how to do this automaticly?
 
No, I don't know a way to do it automatically, but there are numerous programs (TeamViewer, Remote Desktop, pcAnywhere, LogMeIn) that will allow you to remotely access the desktop and click "answer".
 
To cause Skype to automatically answer, go to Tools | Options | Calls | Show advanced options and check "Answer incoming calls automatically." I assume it will hang up automatically when the call is done.
 
We used Skype to broadcast a high school football game Friday Night with excellent quality. We were on about 2 1/2 hours and it did not hang up on us.
 
The Skyped remote went great this weekend. Initially, I could not call the station but the station could call me. The first connection failed after about five minutes but I'm thinking the problem was the kid on the board because I can't make it screw up now.

Once I got on it stayed up two and a half hours with no problem, sounded fine with just a Shure SM58 pluged in the mike jack. I could also bring up Gotomypc similtaniously and could have placed myself on and off the air if I wanted but since this was the first trial.....

I did notice that I was unable to play any sound files on my laptop directly into Skype but could play them out the Laptop speaker similtaniously with being on air using Skype. It must split the sound card. I tried switching the internal mixer around in the laptop but couldn't get a direct playback from Adobie Audion into Skype. I suppose you could loop the output of the sound card back into the mike input to get it over the air.

Ideas: Since my laptop preamp has so much gain iIcould build a simple passive mike/line level mixer and tie it into the mike input then mix my mikes and either playback audio cuts from the OUPUT of the laptop sound card or some outboard source like an Ipod etc.
 
CaptBob92 said:
I did notice that I was unable to play any sound files on my laptop directly into Skype but could play them out the Laptop speaker similtaniously with being on air using Skype. It must split the sound card. I tried switching the internal mixer around in the laptop but couldn't get a direct playback from Adobie Audion into Skype. I suppose you could loop the output of the sound card back into the mike input to get it over the air.
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The behavior you describe is by design. Most Windows sound card drivers can accept only one input at a time.

Easiest way around this is to use an external sound card with a built in mixer (like a Yamaha Audiogram 3).
 
Get an external USB audio interface that has a line in, like a Griffin iMic. Then use an external mixer, such as a Mackie 1202. You will have a lot more options than just plugging a mic into the mic channel.

If you want to keep everything in the computer, try a USB mic.
 
To answer the original question, after 4 hours Skype will hang up, though on occasion it's hung up at the three hour mark.
 
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